Year: 2024
Type: paratext
Abstract: Caio Fernando Abreu , known as Caio F. (his signature), was an award-winning journalist, writer, and cultural agitator who portrayed the myriad contradictions of urban Brazil in the 1970s and '80s like no other.The author of 20 books, including 12 story collections and two novels, he has been awarded major literary prizes, including the prestigious Jabuti Award for Fiction a total of three times.During the military dictatorship in Brazil , his homoerotic writing was heavily censored, and he found refuge in the literary counterculture and like-minded writers such as Hilda Hilst and Dalton Trevisan.In 1994, while living in exile in France, he tested HIV positive.He passed away two years later in Porto Alegre, his hometown, at the age of 47.His books, written in a personal and economic style, speak of love, fear, death, and, above all, the anguish of human loneliness.Abreu's magnum opus, Morangos mofados (1982), was recently translated into English as Moldy Strawberries (2022) by Bruna Dantas Lobato.
Source: Absinthe
Author: Absinthe Complit
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4405719983
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